Javanese Wars of Succession - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ricklefs, M. C.
Leiden
Brill
(1,454 words)
There were three Javanese Wars of Succession -a term introduced by Western historians and not employed in indigenous Javanese sources-in 1704-8, 1719-23, and 1746-57. These wars transformed the political structure of the Mataram empire, pulled the Dutch East India Company (VOC) into seriously draining conflicts, and probably inflamed Javanese senses of cultural distance from the VOC. In 1703, the Mataram dynasty ruler Amangkurat II (r. 1677-1703) died and was succeeded by his son Amangkurat III (r. 1703-8; d. 1734). The kingdom was in considerable